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Spate
Spate is a surname, and may refer to: * Clive Spate (born 1952), British game show contestant * Oskar Spate (1911–2000), geographer * Virginia Spate (1937–2022), Australian art historian * Ute Späte (born 1961), German chess master Spate may also refer to a flood. See also * Pate (other) * Spade (other) A spade is a digging and gardening tool. Spade or Spades may also refer to: Cards * Spades (card game), a trick-taking card game *Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards Music * '' The Spade'', a 2011 studio al ... * Spat (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Spate
Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate (30 March 191129 May 2000) was a geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in Australia and the Pacific. Early life Spate was born to a German father and an English mother in the Bloomsbury district of London, England. During the First World War, his father was interned as a German national and Spate fled to Iowa in the United States. He returned to England in 1919, where he developed an early interest in geography and history. He went on to study at St Catharine's College, Cambridge University in the 1930s. It was during this period that many of Spate's characteristic personality traits revealed themselves: he studied both English as well as Geography, thus cementing a deeply humanistic tendency that would become obvious in his future thinking. His irreverence and sense of humor was also manifest as well – he joined a Communist cell but was thrown out for his frivolity. He was later to claim that he could be 'so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Spate
Virginia Margaret Spate (; 1937 – 12 August 2022) was a British-born Australian art historian and academic. Spate was born in the United Kingdom in 1937. She lived in Burma as a child until her family was evacuated during the Pacific War. In 1951, she settled in Australia, where she studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and fine arts at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1961. She studied and lectured in art history at the University of Cambridge, receiving a Master of Arts. She then received a PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, United States. In 1978, Spate was appointed J. W. Power Professor and Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney. She retired in 2004, and became a professor emeritus of the institute. She was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1981 and appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge in 1998–99. Spate was made a Companion of the Order of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Spate
Clive Spate (born 16 January 1952) is a British game show contestant. He was the winner of the eighth series of ''Countdown'' and has won many other TV quizzes, including the 2003 series '' Grand Slam'', a contest between previous quiz show champions which also featured Olav Bjortomt, Mark Labbett, Graham Nash and David Edwards, among others. He appeared on '' Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'' (Series 15, Episode 13), broadcast on 27 March 2004, where he won £125,000. Spate is also a former tournament Scrabble player. He was the top rated UK player in 1991, 1994 and 1995. He competed at the World Scrabble Championship in 1993, finishing ninth out of sixty-four. The winner that year was ''Countdown'' Champion of Champions Mark Nyman Mark Nyman (born 14 October 1966) is an English professional Scrabble player originally from London, England and now a resident in Cheshire. At the end of 2002, he was rated 205 and was top-rated in the ABSP ratings. As at 7 September 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ute Späte
Ute Späte (born 17 November 1961) is a German chess player who won West Germany Women's Chess Championship (1987). Chess career Together with the girls from North Rhine-Westphalia, Ute Späte won the German state championships for girls in 1978 in Schwäbisch Gmünd and 1979 in Dernau. At the eighth German championship for girls in 1981 in Bitburg she took 4th place. In Bad Oeynhausen 1984 she became Women's Chess Champion of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1984 she took part in the West Germany Women's Chess Championship, which Barbara Hund won, in Bad Aibling and finished 10th. Three years later, Ute Späte won the West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1987 in Bad Lauterberg Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz. Bad Lauterberg is known ''inter alia' ... ahead of Anja Dahlgrün. At the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flood
A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding, for example land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls such as with levees, and larger environmental issues such as climate change and sea level rise. In particular climate change's increased rainfall and extreme weather events increases the severity of other causes for flooding, resulting in more intense floods and increased flood risk. Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pate (other)
Pate, pâté, or paté may refer to: Foods Pâté 'pastry' * Pâté, various French meat forcemeat pies or loaves * Pâté haïtien or Haitian patty, a meat-filled puff pastry dish * ''Pate'' or ''paté'' (anglicized spellings), the Virgin Islands version of empanadas, a meat or vegetable-filled fried-dough dish Pâte 'dough' * ''Pate'', ''pâte'', or ''paste'', the body of cheese excluding the rind * Pâte à choux, a kind of choux pastry Places *Pate, Cambodia *Pate Island, also seat of a former Pate Sultanate, in Kenya Other * Pate (instrument), a Samoan percussion instrument * Pate (surname), a surname * Pâté (film), a film by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo *''Patē'', the Māori name for the tree ''Schefflera digitata'' * Pate, the surface of the human head, especially a bald head Bald Head () is a bare, ice-free headland on Yatrus Promontory situated southwest of View Point on the south side of Trinity Peninsula on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. It was prob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spade (other)
A spade is a digging and gardening tool. Spade or Spades may also refer to: Cards *Spades (card game), a trick-taking card game * Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards Music * ''The Spade'', a 2011 studio album by Butch Walker * "Spade", a song from ''The Golden Age of Grotesque'' by Marilyn Manson * The Spades, first notable band of Roky Erickson Places *Spades, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Spade Township, Knox County, Nebraska, United States *Spade, Texas, a census designated place *Spade Ranch (Nebraska), a cattle ranch *Spade Ranch (Texas), two ranches Software *SPAdes (software), a set of tools for genomic sequence assembly * SMART Process Acceleration Development Environment Other uses *Toyota Spade, a variant of the Toyota Porte mini multi-purpose vehicle *Spade, a character from '' Freedom Planet'' *Spade, an otter in ''Tarka the Otter'' *Spade, a form of ancient Chinese coinage *Spade, an aircraft aileron component *Spad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
